Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1887-07-30

a PUBLIC HlRELlNG MAKES AN ON
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the Labor NuN.Inrut.

Last Thursday week warrant was Is
| ,ucd for th" arrest Of II. IT, Lane, and
II" Nn> appraised 81 III" fact shortly after
Tie secured a bond to answer for his Az
praranrc III tourt the next morning, and
Was promptly on hand to take Whaluvcr
sentence might be inp"@cl upon him.
This happened shortly after last week. y
edition Of the WOEkMEN'S ApVOr\rE
had gone to press
JudR" Thompson, an Fast Haven law
ger, who's" office ~ in CIark'a Building
on Church street, this city, and who is IA
Representative III the legislature, heard
the rrmarkS OF Hugh Daley, prosecuting
attorney, an eN-CHrriage maker, "A law
ger landlord and ''rcpubIican politician,
com friendly terms with the city Hall
crowd. Hugh Daley wanted Mr. Lane
sent Ia lail or furnish bond to pa, four
dollars u Wr"k to the town for the SUP
port Of his two children. Mr. Lane had
no money, and elected not 10 Undue.
others to furnish the bond, and he was
sent 10 the County jall for sixty DAYS.
The local daily newspapers. except the
iRoh, To IFS honor be II said. published
garhl"'l accounts Of the affair, and did
not attempt 10 conceal their JOY over the
incarceration OF a Knight Of Labor.
Many years ago Mr. Lane was in the
grocery business in this city, but in the
hard times subsequent to the war he
failed, and returned to hiNtrade at wood
carving. \ t"rrihl" family alliirtion W;r,
his lot in life. His wife's mind was par
TALLY dcraug"d, and he had on many or.
cISlunS ON his return from WORK found
his poul home in Il state Of chaos from
some strauG" freak of the unfortunate
woman To accrmulatr am\thmg un
der such circumstances was out of the
questions even if tlr wages he earned
were not small. Again and again he
bore mp under the misfortune. II was
Thought l} physicians that childbirth
would have the effect of curing Mrs.
Lame ot hrr nlaIHdy, hnI although she
was temporarily hrtternftcr Those events.
sh" again rrapSrd into her former con
dltlon. Lame, nevertheless, faithfully
Glove to IiHnniurtunatr wife and through
all the years of hardship provided ~ best
he could for III" family.
When Mr. Lane went to WORK at his
trade, he found that his shopmatcs we're
partially organized, and he was not the
kind of man to stand opposed to the
hlra of mutual self protection. He
studied the labor question us far as it
had developed At that time, aud became
an active union man. Moreover he en-.
dray"rrd, after his days work to enlist
his fellow Workmcn in the cause of
uni"nl~m. This finally hrcamc known
to the bosses, and they lost no opportu,
nifty in finding prclc>ts for depriving
him Of work. Thus it was that he Le |
cam" "A marked man, and in his extrem. |
ity, not fully comprehendng the fact
that he VAS practically hlaCklstrd, he !
got INTO debt, from which IT proved i'm
possible to eNtrlCate himself.
Then came the terrible death of his |
wife. While he was away from home |
one day last Summer, she was burned tn |
death. \ boy met his upon the street
and he rushed into the house to find her
horribly mutllated body still mivcrine |
with life upon the hall floor. Thisadd |
another burden. more debt. and two
little orphans that needed constant atten- |
ton. What little opportunity he had to
earn bare living would be cut off if he
deN oted his time To them. They were
finally placed NJ a public institution on
shelton avenue, conducted 10y the town,
and he was to pay the small sum of two
dollars per week for their maintenance,
Surely, ii will he said, that was little
enough. But where a man has nothing,
even that is much. He tried to earn
something by selling the Yale Fountain
Pen. This brought very little to him.
Occasionally he was given an opportun-
lty to earn something by collecting bills
for tins paper.
If he had reuounced his union, and
worked for some boss at scah's wages, he
c"nid no doubt have secured work. In
that case lac would have injured many
other wnrknen who also had families To
support lie would not become a scab.
Daring the last political campaign he
was an active member Of the Labor